Morale: the Missing Encounter Piece From D&D and Pathfinder
From Daniel J. Mello (danscififan) Morale — the esprit de corps, the willingness of the unit to continue to fight. This is an old wargame trait assigned to various armies. Infantry are well trained and usually have a high Morale, where partisans and rebels are not as well trained and often have a lower Morale. […]
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Boring Combats: Putting Weight On The Wrong Foot
Combat without purpose becomes a grind.
One awesome solution you can use: Combat Missions.
But it’s more than that.
Toastmasters taught me to start with the audience and ask one key question:
How do I want the audience to feel during and after my speech?
So too it is with combats.
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Smashing until one side runs out of hit points gets tired fast. In Faster Combat I teach you to add story to the fight. When melee gains greater meaning, players get more engaged. While adding story, be sure to make the stakes known before the battle starts. Now players will think about the stakes and […]
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Should You Run Easy Combats?
I posted something on Reddit and got a great tangential comment from user/ChristopherDornan. He advocates for occasional easy combats, which I agree with. Here’s his excellent comment: Don’t underestimate the value of an easy combat. It does two things, both are incredibly important. It drives home that PCs are heroes, and much stronger than your […]
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This GM Is Burned Out On The Grid
It is amazing how RPGs can flex to accommodate our GMing preferences and style. A game like Monopoly allows little difference each play. But our beloved RPGs are marvellous in how many ways we can tweak and adapt them to match our individual and changing notions of what’s fun. For example, RPT GM Jorge Gonzalez […]
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How Long Does Forever Take? A GM Pit Trap To Avoid
That’s how it might feel waiting for the player on your left to finally wrap up their turn. “Whew. Whose initiative is it now?”
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A Simple And Fun Way To Run Army Battles
Today, RPT game master Scott Brown shares with us a cool and simple system for running epic army battles as stories in your campaigns.
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How Can I Switch To Gridless Combat?
Today I’m looking for your tips and advice and experiences.My next campaign I’m toying with theatre of the mind combat. No minis or battlemat or grid.
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Think Three Steps Ahead (But It’s Not Just About Doing Things Faster)
One thing I know I can improve from my side of the table is to play more tactically with the monsters
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Easy Peasy Wound Tracking In Combat
RPT GM Scott Barrie asked me about how I use knitting row counters to finish fights faster
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